Tag: Art History

Scientists Show How They Gave A 70,000-Year-Old Neanderthal His Smile

Experts reconstructed the caveman’s face from just a fossilized orbital bone.
— Read on www.newsweek.com/scientists-show-how-they-gave-70000-year-old-neanderthal-his-smile-1637223

How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective | Painting | The Guardian

The long read: Forgeries have got so good – and so costly – that Sotheby’s has brought in its own in-house fraud-busting expert
— Read on www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/15/how-to-spot-a-perfect-fake-the-worlds-top-art-forgery-detective

How Data Science Pinpointed the Creepiest Word in “Macbeth” | by Clive Thompson | Aug, 2021 | OneZero

Actors have long been superstitious about acting in it. That’s partly because performances have been riddled with accidents and fatalities; indeed, actors consider it bad luck to even utter the name…
— Read on onezero.medium.com/how-data-science-pinpointed-the-creepiest-word-in-macbeth-3150995d3808

NFTs Seem Like a Frivolous Fad, But They Should Be the Future of Music – Rolling Stone

The wild boom and bust of art NFTs made many onlookers wary of blockchain-based technology — but new developments in gaming, ticketing, and music royalties reveal NFTs’ true power
— Read on www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/crypto-nft-gaming-ticketing-royalties-1197979/

Crypto Rebels | WIRED

It’s the FBIs, NSAs, and Equifaxes of the world versus a swelling movement of Cypherpunks, civil libertarians, and millionaire hackers. At stake: Whether privacy will exist in the 21st century.
— Read on www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/

Incredible Scale Model of Ancient Rome Located in EUR by Italo Gismondi

A look at the ‘Plastico di Roma Imperiale,’ a sprawling 1:250 scale model of ancient Rome commissioned by Mussolini in 1933. Now housed in the Museum of Roman Civilization in EUR, it’s one of the best references for how ancient Rome once looked.
— Read on mymodernmet.com/scale-model-ancient-rome/

Lifelike face of a tattooed Tashtyk man seen for first time behind a stunning gypsum death mask

Aged 25 to 30 when he died 1,700 years ago, he is from the mountainous region of modern-day Khakassia.
— Read on siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/this-tattooed-tashtyk-man-was-found-half-a-century-ago-yet-now-for-the-first-time-we-can-see-his-lifelike-face/